Blogula Rasa

Choirmistress Mary does a lot for us, and frequently pays out of pocket for new music and things she thinks we need in order to look and sound like a seasoned choir, and not a ragtag group that formed a little over a year ago. So one of our members found a Christmas ornament that [...]

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I have NEVER understood the appeal of Mariah Carey. She has a big range, but little resonance in her voice, and her “sexy waif soul” schtick makes my back molars ache like chewing on tin foil. She’s traded on her new hottieness for decades… why do people not realize this shit gets old and bustit?
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The movie reviewer for SFgate.com reviews a recent Easter mass he attended, and this paragraph jumped out at me (yes, because I’m in favor of traditonal liturgy and liberal theology):
Mick LaSalle
I was talking to a former Episcopal pastor yesterday, and he told me that if he were to do it all over again, he’d [...]

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Caminante, no hay camino: The Great Vigil of Easter
Brother Curtis spoke of the Exsultet:‘This past Easter morning at 4:00 a.m. we were celebrating the Easter Vigil in the monastery where I live. At one moment early on in the liturgy I was stunned, quite unexpectedly. I had a kind of epiphany, something which has [...]

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Stephen Fry » Blog Archive » Bored of the dance
Many reasons, all perfectly valid and many of them funny and some of them poignant, prevent Stephen Fry from enjoying the feeling of moving around in time to music.  Also, he declares war on the idea that Americans are “irony illiterate.”

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